Versioning limitations in .NET

This is a blog post I’ve intended to write for a very long time. (Other blog posts in that category include a recipe for tiramisu ice cream, and “knights and allies”.) It’s one of those things that’s grown in my mind over time, becoming harder and harder to start. However, there have been three recent incidents that have brought it back into focus: Azure Functions and Grpc.Core versioning conflict Grpc.Core considering a major version bump Recent internal discussions that would involve a major version bump for all the Google Cloud libraries I maintain